Fearful Quotes
430 Fearful quotes by 360 unique authors
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What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
— Chauncey Wright
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If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so.…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
— Plato
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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing,…
— Daniel Clowes
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I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged…
— John Bell Hood
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When you're fearful, you stumble.
— Jenna Jameson
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With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the…
— Charles Tilly
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It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing…
— Ranulph Fiennes
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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum…
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its…
— Peter McWilliams
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God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my…
— Anatole France
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Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks…
— Thomas Chalmers
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Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire…
— Pema Chodron
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It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less challenging than the…
— Betty Eadie
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Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make…
— Bruce Schneier
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When you face two options and each seems to please God, consider the one that displays God's glory, power and strength. This makes room for…
— Priscilla Shirer
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I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
— Edith Cavell
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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure…
— William Wordsworth
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I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.
— Alma Powell
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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for…
— Dale Carnegie
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can,…
— William Glasser
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
— Kevin Kline
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught…
— George Washington
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Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.
— William Shakespeare
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When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd…
— Joseph Prince
Who Wrote These Fearful Quotes
360 authors contributed a total of 430 Fearful Quotes, led by these top contributors: